Professor Marcin Miłkowski

Marcin Miłkowski, Ph.D.
is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of
the Polish Academy of Sciences.
He is a philosopher of cognitive sciences focused on computational
linguistics and AI.

In 2013, he published the book Explaining the Computational Mind on computational
explanation in cognitive science. The book was the basis of his
habilitation in Poland (something like tenure).

His current project is Cognitive Science in Search of Unity — a
5-year project funded by the National Science Centre, and he’s building a
team of philosophers of cognitive science who deal with question of
unification and mechanistic integration of models.

Marcin earned his M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Warsaw in 2000
with the thesis “Freedom as Creativity. Nietzsche’s significance for Analytical Philosophy”
and his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Warsaw in 2005
with the dissertation “Mind Design. Common-sense intuitions vs. naturalism in
Daniel Dennett’s philosophy of mind”.
He was awarded the 2015 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in
Computing and Philosophy by the International Association for Computing and
Philosophy.